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Here in my mountain home	A
On rugged hills and steep	B
I sit and watch you come	C
O Riverinia Sheep	B
You come from the fertile plains	D
Where saltbush sometimes grows	E
And flats that when it rains	D
Will blossom like the rose	E
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But when the summer sun	F
Gleams down like burnished brass	G
You have to leave your run	F
And hustle off for grass	G
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'Tis then that forced to roam	A
You come to where I keep	B
Here in my mountain home	A
A boarding house for sheep	B
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Around me where I sit	H
The wary wombat goes	E
A beast of little wit	H
But what he knows he knows	E
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The very same remark	I
Applies to me also	J
I don't give out a spark	I
But what I know I know	J
	-
My brain perhaps would show	J
No convolutions deep	B
But anyhow I know	J
The way to handle sheep	B
	-
These Riverina cracks	K
They do not care to ride	L
The half inch hanging tracks	K
Along the mountain side	L
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Their horses shake with fear	M
When loosened boulders go	J
With leaps like startled deer	M
Down to the gulfs below	J
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Their very dogs will shirk	N
And drop their tails in fright	O
When asked to go and work	N
A mob that's out of sight	O
	-
My little collie pup	P
Works silently and wide	L
You'll see her climbing up	P
Along the mountain side	L
	-
As silent as a fox	Q
You'll see her come and go	J
A shadow through the rocks	Q
Where ash and messmate grow	J
	-
Then lost to sight and sound	R
Behind some rugged steep	B
She works her way around	R
And gathers up the sheep	B
	-
And working wide and shy	S
She holds them rounded up	P
The cash ain't coined to buy	S
That little collie pup	P
	-
And so I draw a screw	T
For self and dog and keep	B
To boundary ride for you	T
O Riverina Sheep	B
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And when the autumn rain	U
Has made the herbage grow	J
You travel off again	V
And glad no doubt to go	J
	-
But some are left behind	W
Around the mountain's spread	X
For those we cannot find	W
We put them down as dead	X
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So when we say adieu	T
And close the boarding job	Y
I always find a few	T
Fresh ear marks in my mob	Y
	-
And what with those I sell	Z
And what with those I keep	B
You pay me pretty well	Z
O Riverina Sheep	B
	-
It's up to me to shout	A2
Before we say good bye	S
Here's to a howlin' drought	A2
All west of Gundagai	J

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